SOC 3118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Youth Studies, Age Of Enlightenment, Fully Booked
31 Jul 2018
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Postmodern childhood (11) childhood (pt. 2: postmodern kids contradict the historic model of childhood as protected, innocent beings in a separate, peaceful garden of education, children are no longer separated from the worlds of adult knowledge and adult recreation. Instead, they often serve as an avant-garde in inventing, detecting, and using newest consumer fashions. In this model, children are no longer served and controlled by the agents of the educational establishment: childhood is constructed by media, toys, food, and other child-related industries. Postmodern childhood is directed and encouraged by corporate commercial interests: postmodern children are proof that childhood, as a historic project of european. Enlightenment, has come to an end: these critics denounce, the disappearance of childhood; the emergence of children without childhood; childhood as a fiction; the modern mythology of childhood. In the fundamentalist childhood model, the religious component plays a central role, although nonreligious movements may also propagate a fundamentally belief-oriented childhood.
